for an action moving in africa as the u.n. green blinds for the military intervention in mali to tackle as long as amid criticism of the un's actions in libya created the crisis. calls for more anti-american protests around the holy war against the us egypt want to washington's longtime allies in the region see signs of growing as long as. tear gas and stun grenades are again directed at prof peaceful protesters and the

latest crackdown which is drawing little attention in most international media. and the family of a journalist working with the russian media in syria tells or to me she was kidnapped in an area of intense clashes between the government and the rebels. hello and welcome to our team karen terrill well molly in west africa might soon see foreign troops on the ground now that a u.n. security council resolution paves the way for international intervention mali which is basically split into walls help to deal with islamic extremists who have taken over the north a small nation plunged into chaos in march after a coup topple him as a good as a bit torrent rebels and islamist groups a took advantage of. the instability seizing control of the north and proclaiming

independence historian gerald horne explains why it might be too late for the world community to clean up a mess that traces back to their interference and want to mali's neighbors there is no question that what is happening in mali which is a humanitarian crisis and disaster is a direct outgrowth of the north atlantic countries' intervention in libya in two thousand and eleven in order to dislodge colonel qaddafi the north atlantic countries had to dump tons of weapons into libya which inevitably leaked into neighboring mali which they are to for had been relatively stable with the leaking of these weapons into mali you saw the eruption of civil unrest and then military unrest in northern mali and now what we have is that an elk heighted like formation has taken hold of a region of northern mali that is larger than the state of france what is followed in what has happened in the wake of the overthrow of the authorities and bomb

a cope has been the flogging of suspected criminals and taishan them and suspected the persecution of single mothers tens of thousands have fled into neighboring algeria mauritania night here it's also fair to say that this event in northern mali has given a jolt of success student so-called is enormous throughout northern and northwestern africa well as employment some profile in the region has been boosted by recent events the terror group has called for a jihad against the u.s. for an american made fell mocking the prophet muhammad as leader urged more protest outside u.s. embassies in the middle east while praising last month's assault on the consulate in libya that killed four diplomats meanwhile egypt where the group's current leader comes from has seen large protests against the. growing islamization of the

country a young liberals rally turned ugly when muslim brotherhood supporters also descended on taquerias square and clashed with anti-government demonstrators over one hundred were injured in egypt's most violent protest since mohamed morsi came into office james to trials who's a former u.s. senate foreign policy analysts says the threat of radicalization of egypt is very real. we were seeing a very rapid islamisation of the political structure in egypt and nobody should be surprised at this. if there was a lot of discussion about the power struggle that would ensue between morsi in the military and it seems that morsi in the brotherhood have triumphed much quicker than anybody expected and nobody should doubt what their ultimate intentions are in terms of strict enforcement of sharia and they recreate you know the the khilafat so i think this statement about jihad to recapture jerusalem should not come as any

surprise to anyone i don't think the peace treaty with israel ultimately will be altered but we will see what form that takes and what it will take it i think the most important thing that strikes me is it shows the utter incoherence of american policy in the arab world by promoting the islamization of egypt to the removal of our longtime satrap in egypt hosni mubarak and then we seem surprised that democracy in egypt has taken this direction paris further trouble in the region and what's being labeled the forgotten revolution coming up and security forces once again lash out at peaceful protesters demanding political reforms as the monarchy reinforces ties with its powerful military backer great britain. the family of a journalist who's been helping russian news outlets in syria has told r.t. that she's been kidnapped near the city of holmes the area is

a scene of intense fighting between government forces and the opposition our correspondent in the region arena following the story. the husband. contacted the r t and saying that she was abducted on her course you i was working in syria she has been there for almost a year and now she has been to me all major hotspots in this country torn by the civil war her reports have largely been known for being very critical of the rebels as well as the russian consulates russian diplomats in syria are working on establishing a what exactly has happened to her car and where her whereabouts could be now of course syria remains a highly unstable ground for work for journalists. well known are going to reporters without borders have come out with an open letter directed at the free syrian army they have said and i'm quoting that the organization has been drawing attention to the regime's tight grip on the news and information in syria for the

past two decades and while they have been condemning the attacks on foreign and local journalists by the assad regime they have also unfortunately witnessed. and have received reports from journalists foreign as well as local who are saying that they have been increasingly becoming targets of opposition groups in the country and again a quote from the reporters beyond borders the use of syria's pro-government media are becoming the targets of abduction and murder with increasing frequency while foreign journalists are also reporting that they are being targets of death threats from opposition groups of course he will be keeping a close eye on the situation in regards to the journalist missing in syria the syrian opposition is being increasingly helped by al qaida related jihad ists they rebels say fighters from the islamist al nusra front helped them to attack and seize an air defense base in the outside of the major city of aleppo just steinberg

from executive intelligence review magazine says rebels growing links with terrorist groups should ring alarm bell for their foreign supporters. the syrian opposition is increasingly being dominated by the same al qaeda linked jihadi networks that just recently is. an american ambassador and three other american diplomats in benghazi libya the opposition has clearly rather grand terms of any military capacity to overthrow the assad regime so the opposition is resorting to suicide bombings coridon means the standard techniques of all qaida that they're continuing to use against the united states in afghanistan and in iraq it's a terrible embarrassment that the united states is back in bed with al qaida and one is osama bin ladin tensions are heating up between syria and its neighbor

turkey with holding on to cargo confiscated from a syrian plane turkey says the ship and contained russian made weapons claims strongly denied by russia more about the diplomatic standoff at r.t. top com there's also exclusive and firsthand reports from the passengers and the crew of the plane intercepted by turkey they describe how badly they were treated. before. and october of discontent continues debt stricken e.u. tens of thousands of angry students marched across italy they're outraged by cuts to education spending which have already been imposed by the government headed by prime minister mario monti and the sentiment is also expected in the spanish capital later on today also in spain there have been fresh clashes in barcelona between those supporting an opposing catalonia sent a pundit's comes as the e.u. was awarded this year's nobel peace prize for sowing peace across the continent

researcher baracoa also says the award comes in to contrast with what the union is . doing. when it comes to this this attribution of a nobel prize to the european union obviously it comes into contradiction with boasts what the ear opinion is doing on the european level and what do your opinion is doing in the rest of the world so i think that i mean the same way that we've seen the same way that happened a few years ago when obama got the nobel peace prize i think that what is going on is that we can see that the nobel peace prize is much more a symbolical stance a symbolical process or decision that has the aim of just favoring some actors in order to push them to do better than what they are doing when it comes to spain's problems we can see that this really reveals a kind of a kind of real crisis either in spain or in a lot of sort of european countries and obviously we can disconnect the catalonia

issue from the global financial crisis that is going on in the european union since gotten your feels that with the crisis it's been losing a lot of money and it feels that the deal that it had with the central government in spain isn't worth it anymore while the e.u. is praised for keeping me a continent peace those who defended it at a time of war discover there's an expiration date on their side it's a gesture of gratitude to british world war two veterans who served in the russian architect needs a bureaucratic break while also. we realize all the religions would assume you would give each different book every book has a similar story as religion on the slide in the u.s. partings resident laurie harshness puts the question to new york first of all this after a short break. you

can tell an ordinary russian siberian. in the blink of an. anthropologist. those days siberians were different clothes different food. different animals. but what about. my journey began in two men but the big city was all shiny skyscrapers and shopping malls much like any other prosperous russian. so i decided to travel to. a small town just outside. dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia. with cabbage and making sure you can have as a starter main dish. although

it may draw. most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting though only if you decide to participate. when you look upon martin. is in the middle of a swamp only accessible by transport. and when. it's inhabited by. a large muslim minority that migrated head before the russians. and this. israel. maybe not the stuff of brochures but distinctive enough to show that after all these years still not quite like anywhere

else. and i am welcome back to our team for more world news what's been dubbed the end visible arab spring continues child unraveling bahrain police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of peaceful protesters. at least ten people have been arrested demonstrations have continued almost nonstop since last february and are often met by heavy response from the country's security forces meanwhile britain has signed a military treaty with the state seen as a sign of support for the under-fire regime dominic from the nation's justice and development movement believes western nations have too much to lose from reforms.

the obviously doesn't send a particularly fantastic message when you're sending weapons to a country that is using weapons against its people on a daily basis to kill to injure to crush protests to crush essentially democracy but i think. the reason why why the u.s. and other countries do that is because they want to keep an eye seen as an ally of western countries and therefore they want to try and keep that relationship but what these governments don't realize or they are too few to realize they have a huge amount of leverage they have a lot of ability to convince the trade or to pressure them into reform and perhaps they miss on. the strength they have all perhaps you know that they're scared that their interests which are tied up in that region could be damaged if they you know if there were a democratic change but the reality is the people of bahrain a forty for democracy they're calling for change i didn't have to be against the western interests actually i could be very much in the interests of the west and i

know the rest of the world how democratic and stable country we've got eyewitness accounts online from someone who took part in the latest protests to turn back. also on our website we have photos from bahrain's capital where events have been spiraling over the past months. also claims that a group of russian citizens arrested in the u.s. earlier this month were forced to admit they were involved in illegally exporting high tech electronics to russia diplomats say the suspects are being put under psychological pressure more on that from archies peter oliver. but what we've seen is the statement being issued by the russian foreign ministry regarding the four russian citizens currently still in custody who have been charged with the illegal export of military technology the foreign ministry suggesting that these four russians are being put under extreme psychological and moral pressure in order to get them to sign confessions the foreign ministry is also wanting a review of the decision to deny these for russian citizens bail it has taken the

media by storm a little bit it has been all over the media that this is some kind of spy scandal that is dismissed by the foreign ministry they say all you have to do is look at the charges that have been leveled against these four russian citizens that their criminal charges the families of these russian citizens have been expressing concern over the way that they are being treated while in custody there's been suggestions that they're being forced to sleep on the floor there in very crowded cells these four russian citizens were picked up on the third of october as part of a group of eleven people that the f.b.i. wanted to speak to in connection with the export of high tech technology from the united states to russia it's believed that technology has a potential military use they were picked up in houston in texas over the next few days they're going to be moved to new york where the first hearings on this case will be heard next week time now for other international news this hour a suicide bomber has killed at least sixteen people after blowing himself up in

a market in pakistan's northwest he was supposedly targeting pro-government militia as well as the local tribal leaders no groups admitted the attack but the pakistani taliban militants have carried out similar attacks against elders who helped the government flush out and search are. two suicide attacks in southern afghanistan have claimed lives of that least eight people the first blast was aimed at afghan intelligence officers and it was carried out by the taliban the second explosion targeted local police man they follow a chain of attacks by insurgents seeking to under. government attempts to secure the region. iran is considering limiting your rainy i'm in richmond if it's allowed fuel for a scientific reactor from abroad the foreign ministry says if other nations respect its right to peaceful nuclear energy it could keep enrichment below twenty percent iran suffering from western back at economic sanctions aimed at halting its nuclear

program over suspicions its making atomic weapons but denies britain is preventing its heroic veterans from receiving honors for saving countless lives during the second world war they'd risk themselves on perilous journeys to help their brothers in arms. explains what's stopping their valor from being properly rewarded. i think the worst journey in the world winston churchill's description of the grim ordeal that faced the british soldiers who were part of the arctic convoys during world war two the getting supplies to russian forces the convoy face danger from above and below from not see your base and aircraft it was going into the spray and the how it was there free for fell overboard and there. the temperature was. below zero i mean i was nineteen years of age eighteen

years of age going up to russia and then do an order. but we've done it well could our because the chopper to be done john stories and memories are among the most harrowing of the war for the russians it was more than just supplies it was psychological support contributing hugely to the war effort that's why in april the russian president awarded the issue of medal to the allies he taken part in the convoy missions but incredibly the push government blocking russia from rewarding british veterans for their valor. of the arctic convoys in recognition of your outstanding contribution inter allied cooperation due to world war two the description american attack. apparently unless the british government. is a non starter what i think. forgivable war the foreign office third it's

against the rules in order for permission to be given for a war to be exerted there has to be a specific service to the country concerned and that service should have taken place within the previous five years john's wife says that's ridiculous they're all late eighty's early ninety's some of them what on earth are they supposed to do over the last five years they still pray at maine or what they were during the war it never leaves them. so why are they being painted and not being given this. i think it's disgraceful absolutely disgraceful angry not just from a whole while the ship might those here and those who passed on across the bars beside to me this disgusting john says it's time the current prime minister stepped in to tea the decent thing and i. was there in there yes

we were all in together. the russians the americans the belgium yes we were all in it together then but apparently we've been left there because you leave we can mention this medal everybody is guilty. only but the foreign countries we're not good campaign is in both britain and russia i refuse ing to back down in pushing the government to get these men properly rewarded for their bravery it's. really extraordinary service and the worth of important people during the work to see that. to pivot was a time he found friendship through real adversity is treated by john's pitches and stories of his time working with the russians dancing and. these are the

medals that john received the his heroic deeds cheering world war two and he was hoping along with the other veterans involved in the arctic convoys to add the issue called medal to their collection but as long as the british government continues to refuse to allow them to be awarded they won't be adding that medal that they say deserve. r.t. london europe's cash strapped countries are scrounging around for any cash they can right now. italy's planning to depends homes into the church collection with plans to strip the complex church of its tax exempt status in order to patch holes in the country's budget. plus a degree of drilling america's hunger for energy means plowing up college campuses to get at the gas money.

sunday worship used to be routine for millions of americans today the congregations are looking a little sparse parties in new york to see whether it's time for a face lift. a new pew poll indicated one in five americans has no religion and more and more americans are becoming atheists is america losing its religion and if so why this week let's talk about that i think as we get smarter we realize all the religions are the same you look at each different book every book has a similar story. it's all the same we're on one planet there should be one war doesn't matter if you're in pakistan or new jersey well i think i see more people that maybe keep to themselves i mean you can be religious without going to

a sanctuary or something along that line so i think the perception has probably changed a lot i just got baptized last year everybody has their own way of coming to their beliefs but for us it was just you know we're getting older and you know we're getting closer to those they say the pearly gates but on what we're grows was insurance you got baptized for insurance purposes i don't believe what you want to believe but don't force it on other people or use it for they don't know things that hurt other people is that what it is is that people see organized religion as something detrimental to other people well i'm speaking i guess for mostly myself here but yeah that's what makes sense to me yeah when you see wars being waged in the name of religion it makes you think yes the bottom line is american seems to be losing their faith in organized religion which might be less of a sign of their waning spirituality and more of an indication that it might be time

to reorganize. in a few minutes the successes and strains of europe's relationship with russia i want of the people who is trying to keep it all together. this is the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape buildings still ting over their foundation pipes being black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the bergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worst the better that can do nine hundred eighty bearings work was a burgeoning mining community. was determined to maintain at all costs to a degree located halfway between north america and western europe bergen

archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the us is ours westernmost outpost now it's one of the last preserved relics. picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russia travellers the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts and not very popular with tourists. coming to a very authentic place. should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the. tradition here. i should not like to have it in a shiny condition to be the time to change even for the better is not always good

for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to their repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song comfortable with familiar. the gold fever. turned thousands into slaves. but others involved in the mines and since i started working in the mine i stated. to nationals. cash cow to be milked dry at least i think that in this

country metallurgy has an environmental cost which is an acceptable local business was labeled illegal and controlled by criminals you know in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace. we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups prices colombia going to pay. the bill modest effect on our t.v. .